Our View: Time to clarify what sharing the road means

9:11 PM,
Jul. 4, 2013

Written by

Press-Citizen Editorial Board
Our View

Bicycle safety should be a common-sense issue, not a political or partisan one.

That's why, during recent legislative sessions, we've supported several efforts to get lawmakers to take further steps to codify what is written in the "Bicycle" section of the Iowa Driving Manual: That motorists should "(give) bicycle riders the room they deserve and need for safety."

And lawmakers have responded. In 2010, for example, they passed legislation requiring drivers to keep a "safe and reasonable distance" from bicyclists. This year, however, a proposal to specify that drivers should come no ...